This is the most poignant of all the books I've read recently because it has touched me the most. Sometimes in life you never know the impact you'll have on someone. Mentoring a troubled girl has led to me fostering this beautiful teenager who is struggling to put the broken pieces of her life back together again. Her whole story is not mine to share, but the food represented here was made with my very own girl in pieces.

Seventeen-year-old Charlie has experienced more heartache in her young life than most people do in a lifetime. The broken glass takes away the pain and yet leaves her filled with hurt at the same time. She'll have to discover that she holds the key to freeing herself from the sentence she's given herself. Only then can she begin to heal.

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Bean and Cheese Nachos - This represents the soft and hard parts of Charlie's life as well as how all the individual pieces, though separate, can be put together as a whole.

Apple Crumble Cake - Just like Charlie, this dessert is sweet on the inside and crumbly on the outside but the insides hold up the parts that want to fall in.